Colorado Artists, as Assembly Line Workers, Part Five

Over the next 20 years, dozens of painters, sculptors, jewelers, metalworkers, potters, designers, and performers relocated to Salida, attracted by the low rents, recreational access to the newly-cleaned-up Arkansas River...

Colorado Artists, as Assembly Line Workers, Part Four

It didn’t take long before the arts council staff members were being paid much larger salaries than the artists who were doing the actual work of creating America’s stories — visual, written, performed...

Colorado Artists, as Assembly Line Workers, Part Three

Bear with me, dear reader, this little story really does have a round-about connection to the Colorado Creative Industries story we have been considering...

Colorado Artists, as Assembly Line Workers, Part Two

Pagosa Springs first appeared on the map back in the late 1800s when a couple of corrupt timber barons usurped the local government and began making deals with the railroads to illegally harvest thousands upon thousands of acres of old-growth Ponderosa pine...

Colorado Artists, as Assembly Line Workers, Part One

A couple of years ago, the following notice appeared in our email, advertising an exciting chance for Colorado non-profits and governments to apply to Colorado Creative Industries for grants ranging from $4,000 to $10,000...

Over the next 20 years, dozens of painters, sculptors, jewelers, metalworkers, potters, designers, and performers relocated to Salida, attracted by the low rents, recreational access to the newly-cleaned-up Arkansas River…

It didn’t take long before the arts council staff members were being paid much larger salaries than the artists who were doing the actual work of creating America’s stories — visual, written, performed…

Pagosa Springs first appeared on the map back in the late 1800s when a couple of corrupt timber barons usurped the local government and began making deals with the railroads to illegally harvest thousands upon thousands of acres of old-growth Ponderosa pine…

A couple of years ago, the following notice appeared in our email, advertising an exciting chance for Colorado non-profits and governments to apply to Colorado Creative Industries for grants ranging from $4,000 to $10,000…